This is what I call change or progress.
This could just be the government setting people up so they can identify the people who will carry forth the momenteum for change, or it can be the real deal. One has to remember they have almost total control over most aspects already. So I look at it as bait first, and hope second.
So take it with a grain of salt and a little hope, and if a few more other states jump on the bandwagon then I'll see about getting physicly involved myself....or not, depending on how much intel I can pull out of it in the longer run. Either way you cut it it is someone finally slamming down the constitution and saying "what it says here is not what you are doing you dirty little lying, cheating, murdering, satan monkeys.""So as a result it says here we can break away."
I'm really suprised this hasn't happened a long time ago. California had talks a few years ago about succession, but it never came to be past an investigatory vote. Now under the 10th amendment all states now have the right to break away if they so chose. If this is indeed real then my hat's off to oklahoma.
A Joint Resolution claiming sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over certain powers; serving notice to the federal government to cease and desist certain mandates; and directing distribution. WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads as follows: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."; and WHEREAS, the Tenth Amendment defines the total scope of federal power as being that specifically granted by the Constitution of the United States and no more; and WHEREAS, the scope of power defined by the Tenth Amendment means that the federal government was created by the states specifically to be an agent of the states; and
WHEREAS, today, in 2008, the states are demonstrably treated as agents of the federal government; and WHEREAS, many federal mandates are directly in violation of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States; and WHEREAS, the United States Supreme Court has ruled in New York v. United States, 112 S. Ct. 2408 (1992), that Congress may not simply commandeer the legislative and regulatory processes of the states; and WHEREAS, a number of proposals from previous administrations and some now pending from the present administration and from Congress may further violate the Constitution of the United States. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF EPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE OF THE 2ND SESSION OF THE 51ST OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURE: THAT the State of Oklahoma hereby claims sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States over all powers not otherwise enumerated and granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States. THAT this serve as Notice and Demand to the federal government, as our agent, to cease and desist, effective immediately, mandates that are beyond the scope of these constitutionally delegated powers. THAT a copy of this resolution be distributed to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate of each state's legislature of the United States of America, and each member of the Oklahoma Congressional Delegation. full text of resolution in pdf:
http://www.ok- afe.com/files/documents/1/HJR1089_int.pdf
http://www.okhouse.gov/51LEG/Leg_Votesxx.aspx?include=okh01983.tx
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